On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Jim Lucas <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Ballard wrote:
>> I want to store the name of the computer that is executing a script in
>> some log tables. (Our servers are load balanced, and I'd like to be
>> able to determine which physical machine is serving each request.)
>>
>> On my development machine (Windows PC running the debugger in Zend
>> Studio), I can find the name in three places:
>>
>> getenv('COMPUTERNAME')
>> $_ENV['COMPUTERNAME']
>> $_SERVER['COMPUTERNAME']
>>
>> On the development server, only the first works; $_ENV and $_SERVER
>> both return NULL and throw an undefined index notice.
>>
>> I'm concerned about the reliability of all of these methods, since it
>> seems that they are not always available and all three can be easily
>> overridden inside a script. However, I notice that the header
>> generated by phpinfo() remains correct even when I manually spoofed
>> all three values on my development machine. Is there a reliable way to
>> find this value?
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
> Well, I looked at all the variables that are available. Then I looked at the
> data in the output of phpinfo().
>
> The only place that I can find the information that you are looking for is
> available in the "PHP Configuration" section and it is in the System information.
>
> So, looking at the phpinfo() page, I noticed the first comment down had a
> method/function for converting the output of phpinfo() into a multidimensional
> array. Taking the output of that users function, you can access the data the
> data you are looking for.
>
> So, here is a link to the phpinfo() page.
>
> http://php.net/phpinfo
>
> From there, get the function called phpinfo_array()
>
> take the output of that and run it through the following set of commands.
>
> $data = phpinfo_array(TRUE);
> list(, $server_name) = explode(' ', $data['PHP Configuration']['System']);
> print( $server_name );
>
> This will give you what you are looking for.
>
> Jim
>
Close, but not quite what I need. On the Windows systems, the System
value is "Windows NT [hostname] [build]", so that just returns "NT".
Thanks, though. :-) You never know when something like that might be
useful.
I found php_uname('n') which looks like it will return the information
I'm after without having to dissect strings, and it appears to work
just fine across platforms.
Andrew
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